Moses said to the people in his final charge "I put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life...Be strong and resolute..for the Lord will not forsake you" Deut. 30 and 31. Former US National Debate Champion and Ordained Rabbi tackles issues of Public Policy, Israel, Islamic Terrorism, Antisemitism, Jewish Wisdom and the Chicago Bears

Since Democrats enacted programs, claiming they would help blacks,
like “war on Poverty, AFDC”, we have skyrocketed teenage birth rates, broken
families, 6 generations welfare dependency, huge percent black men under 30 in
jail or with a record, 27% Black unemployment

When this enslavement of modern blacks by Democrats is pointed
out, you are called a racist.

It is the Republican Party that sees people without color of their
skin, has the fantastic Black members such as congresswoman Senator Scott South
Carolina, Congresswoman Mia Love, Professor Thomas Sowell, Secr. State
Condoleezza Rice,

Supreme Court Justice Thomas and so many others.

It is the Republican Party that sees the devastation wrought by
the liberal social welfare programs and how they destroyed cities,
neighborhoods, families

Below is an exclusive excerpt where Stone writes of President Nixon’s support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, despite much opposition from both his Cabinet and Congress.

At 6 a.m. on Saturday October 6, 1973 White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig woke up President Nixon at his home in California with news that Egypt and Syria had attacked Israel.

The news of Middle East aggression shocked the American foreign policy and intelligence communities to such an extent that a study prepared by the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence in conjunction with the Nixon Presidential Library concluded, “To intelligence historians, the October 1973 war is almost synonymous with ‘intelligence failure.'”

It became clear in the hours after the attack that the Arabs had surprised Israeli forces and the Israeli state faced the greatest threat to its survival since the original war of independence three decades earlier. Along the border with Syria, along the so-called Golan Heights, 180 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syrian tanks supplied by the Soviet Union; likewise Egypt crossed the Suez with 80,000 soldiers facing little Israeli opposition.

In the days following the Yom Kippur attacks Israel suffered a number of setbacks, and Washington became increasingly concerned. Nixon alone concluded that the US must step in to back Israel against Arab forces whose primary military supplier was the Soviet Union—the 1973 war became more than just necessary to save the Jewish state, it became a struggle between the world’s preeminent Super Powers. Kissinger opposed the US action.

It is one of history’s great ironies that Nixon’s proposed airlift played an integral role in the salvation of the Jewish state, as in the years since the release of the Watergate Tapes it has become one of the established facts of the Nixon mythos that the president was a raving anti-Semite. The tapes continue to damn Nixon, who maintained a cognitive dissonance when it came to several prominent Jewish members of his senior staff-Kissinger, White House counsel Leonard Garment, and speechwriter William Safire as well as economist Herb Stein.

In one rant from 1971, Nixon railed against the Jews who in his estimation were both “all over the government” and disloyal, he told Haldeman that the Jews needed to be controlled by placing someone at the top “who is not Jewish.” Incredible, given the position in which he would find himself in two short years, Nixon would argue to Haldeman that, “most Jews are disloyal,” and “generally speaking, you can’t trust the bastards. They turn on you.” In another exchange, just months before the 1973 war, Nixon rants to Kissinger about American Jews and what he saw as their selfish view of foreign policy.

On a call on April 19, 1973, Nixon revealed a concern that American Jews would “torpedo” a US-Soviet summit vowing that, “If they torpedo this summit… I’m gonna put the blame on them, and I’m going to do it publicly at nine o’clock at night before eighty million people”. Then, perhaps most damning, Nixon would go on to argue, “I won’t mind one goddamn bit to have a little anti-Semitism if it’s on that issue… they put the Jewish interest above America’s interest and it’s about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he’s an American first and a Jew second.”

Yet, Nixon would play a pivotal role in protecting the Jewish state, as Nixon recognized that the defeat of Israel was unthinkable for US interests. Nixon went to Congress to request authorization for emergency aid for Israel despite the Gulf States announcing a price increase of seventy percent in the wake of the Arab assault. After Nixon went to Congress for authorization, the Gulf States responded vigorously, announcing a total boycott of the United States, causing the oil shock of 1973.

The Gulf States’ retaliation simply served to further entrench the opposition of many who had fought to slow or halt the shipment of weapons to the Israelis (the former being represented by Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Kissinger, the latter being represented by Secretary of Defense Schlesinger). Nixon hit the roof when he learned that Kissinger was delaying the airlift because of a concern that it would offend the Russians. Despite the opposition of his national security and foreign policy brain trust, Nixon ordered the airlift, saying, “We are going to get blamed just as much for three planes as for three hundred,” and later in exasperation at the slow start of US support, said “Use every [plane] we have—everything that will fly.”

Finally, after several days of internal politicking amongst the upper echelons of the Administration, Nixon got his airlift: “Operation Nickel Grass.” Over the course of the airlift 567 missions were flown, delivering over 22,000 tons of supplies, and an additional 90,000 tons were delivered to Israel by sea. Later in her life, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir would admit that upon hearing of the airlift during a cabinet meeting, she began to cry.

Nixon’s loyalty drove him to save a US ally from the threat of utter destruction despite the real risk of economic crisis, and political cost to himself. To borrow the phrase from the Kennedy clan, Nixon’s decision to aid Israel was a true “profile in courage.”

A leading Jewish think take stated that we need an aggressive, offense minded response to attacks on Israel. (See http://www.timesofisrael.com/take-the-offensive-against-anti-israel-academics-top-think-tank-urges/) . They wrote: “The key to dealing with these threats is an active — not just defensive — approach; we must denounce those who would slander us and seek our ill.”

That is also true about the great threat to the USA and the world: Democrats/the left/ Obama.

The left/Democrats are constantly denigrating and attacking Republicans/Conservatives and Republicans are always playing defense and rarely fight back. That is wrong. It achieves nothing. The light hand approach to the obvious dangers and weaknesses about Obama failed. He wast elected twice and is rapidly ruining America and the world. We knew in 2008 he was a radical, trafficked with jihadists and Pentagon bombers, was the most left member of the Senate, had virtually no experience etc, but the Republicans were afraid to go after him. They are being accused (wrongly) of racism ANYWAY.

Obama/leftists/Democrats pursue policies that have led to:

Record poverty, 93 million out of labor force, Obama DOUBLING all previous debt, no fixes on Social Security and Medicare, 50% recent college grads without full time work, anemic economic growth, gutting the military, the rise and proliferation of Isis, an impending catastrophic deal with Iran, constant betrayal of Israel and our historic allies and drawing closer to the worst nations on earth (Iran, Cuba,) and no effort to stop Russian and china's aggressive moves, the nation losing their long time doctors and health plans for mostly much higher premiums in Obamacare, record new job killing regulations, more businesses closing than opening, record food stamps, more and more black on black murders and shooting that is ignored, IRS abuse to Obama's opponents and Israel supporters, purposely endangering police and ratcheting up racial tensions, claim Islam is peaceful, unsecure borders, try and legislate against guns which will leave guns only in the hands of the bad guys, massive immigration of Muslims, 81% of whom worldwide support Isis in recent poll, middle class wealth losses of $5000 average and on and on. Meanwhile Obama and the left divert our energy with a constant stream of phony issue or radical cultural shifts, like the phony climate change charge.

Let them call you a racist. They charge that because they are so hungry for power and know they can't win on the issues. THEY are the racists for bringing up skin color. Argue that back.They are also the SEXISTS for advocating for Hillary only because she is a female. She obviously is a terrible and dangerous candidate.So you won't get invited to their cocktail parties. Have your own. Why would you want to hang around liberals anyway? They are deranged.

Obama/leftists/Democrats are endangering the whole world and ruining America, while allowing dangers to proliferate and accelerate. Be BOLD/ AGGRESSIVE/ ASSERTIVE/ not defensive in challenging this, Don't let liberals put you on the defensive. they are a combination of WRONG, DANGEROUS, FOOLISH, STUPID, or UNINFORMED.

In the Book of Numbers in the Bible, Moses and God did not deal with Korah's dangerous rebellion by being defensive. Korah was swallowed by an earthquake. Fight back.

4.No respect for other 2 branches of government.
“I have a pen and a phone. If they won’t do it, I’ll do it by executive action”
and Supreme Court? Last week, President Obamamade several commentsabout the
Supreme Court’s pending decision in King v. Burwell,the
Obamacare tax subsidies case, chiding the court for taking up the issue and
calling it “an easy case.” But should the president be telling the justices how
to rule?

Historically, many presidents have criticized decisions with
which they have disagreed, but very few have done sobeforethe court issued its decision.

The Obama administration has been nothing if not inconsistent in its dealings with Iran.

Lee Smith in Tablet details how the Obama administration has consistently caved in to Iranian demands, to the point where it now has strayed far from its original goals in negotiations.

The White House has attacked critics of the deal by pointing out that any negotiation is a give and take, but the deal currently being negotiated serves entirely Iranian interests and not American ones.

There was a time when the administration was intent on dismantling the Iranian nuclear program. As John Kerry said in December 2013, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran “because we knew that it would hopefully help Iran dismantle its nuclear program. That was the whole point of the regime.”
Today, the administration is not talking about dismantling anything. The whole point of the deal, as the White House sees it, is simply to extend Iran’s break-out time to a year, which won’t really be a year, according to the administration, but is still somehow a useful round number.
It used to be that the White House wasn’t going to let Iran enrich any uranium at all. As former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in April 2012, “Our position is clear: Iran must live up to its international obligations, including full suspension of uranium enrichment as required by multiple UN Security Council resolutions.”
However the Joint Plan of Action in November 2014 acknowledged Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

“For several months I’ve been talking with most of the 2016 Republican field about their individual campaigns, paths to victory and policy positions” and made the “difficult” decision to “throw my weight behind Senator Marco Rubio,” Rosen told Jewish Insider.

Rosen , who raised around $5 million for former GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, listed Rubio’s foreign policy experience and knowledge, as well as ability to attract the “necessary and desirable” support from youth voters, Hispanic voters and female voters, as a reason for his choice. Rosen also helped organize a $50,000-per-couple fund-raiser for Romney in Jerusalem, according to the NY Times.

Jewish Insider, a popular morning newsletter, also noted that Rosen is close with GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, with whom he serves on the boards of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and Birthright Israel. As previously reported Rubio is rumored to be Adleson’s favorite candidate in the Republican primary.

The move towards Rubio could help Jewish donors on the sidelines end the deliberating process and jump on board of Rubio’s campaign as the most electable Republican hopeful. The Washington Post reported last week that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has struggled to make inroads “among the powerful and monied financial community” — in part because of his social conservative views.

Rubio trails Clinton by 3 percentage points in Florida and Ohio, and leading by one in Pennsylvania, running closest out of eight Republican contenders in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a recent Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll. In Florida, Clinton gets 47 percent to Rubio’s 44 percent, and 46 percent against former Gov. Jeb Bush, who would receive the support of 42 percent. The remaining candidates poll below 40 percent. In Ohio, Rubio trails the former Sec. of State by 45-42 percent, while in Pennsylvania, he ekes ahead by one point (44-43).

Monday, June 29, 2015

The delusional Pope
No offense meant to Catholics or Catholicism but I cannot understand this Pope.Christians being massacred all over the world by Muslims, Catholics being forced to violate their religious principles in the USA and this pope issues declarations that defy sense.
Pope: WRONG on: climate change, Palestinian terrorists, gun control, socialism, Islam
1. Issues an encyclical about CLIMATE CHANGE, which is a HOAX http://strongandresolute.blogspot.com/2015/03/climate-change-our-fault-leftist-hoax.html
2. Vatican embraces terrorist Palestinian state
They are deluded if they think this will stop Isis from killing Christians http://strongandresolute.blogspot.com/2015/05/as-vatican-embraces-terrorist.html
3.Pope says no one who invests in weapons company can be a Christian. Ok , tell your ARMED guards to put away their guns. + How do you propose to stop the slaughter of Christians without weapons? How about your contradicting yourself in three sentences about stopping the Holocaust?
(John Hinderaker) Powerline blog “Pope Francis is rapidly convincing me that he is not just a leftist, but a dope. Speaking to a group of young people in Turin, he departed from his script and launched into a rambling denunciation of, among others, arms manufacturers. He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries. Then he said “The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn’t they bomb (the railway lines)?”
With what? Oh yeah, that would be bombs. Dropped out of bombers. Manufactured by…whom? "
4.Calls for socialism. Hey Pope, what countries tried socialism in 20th century and what was result? China, 50 million dead. Stalin, 50 million dead. And the German National Socialist Party known as Nazi.
5.Calls Islam religion of peace. PEACE? 81% Muslims support ISIS
http://www.commdiginews.com/featured/al-jazeera-poll-suggests-81-of-arab-muslims-support-isis-42253/ Islam death toll? 590 million murdered http://strongandresolute.blogspot.com/2015/05/muslims-have-massacred-over-590-million.html
John Hinderacker wrote: "Pope Francis needs to pull out of his recent tailspin before he becomes an international laughingstock."

Normally a treaty must be ratified by a 2/3 vote in the Senate. The only Congressional action about Iran does the OPPOSITE: requires 2/3 vote to BLOCK the Iran deal. A very hard bar to achieve. Aipac must be involved. They have seem reluctant to OPPOSE Obama. Hopefully now it is changed. This will be a catastrophic deal that must be blocked

Until now the Obama administration seemed to have domesticated and neutered AIPAC, the proudly pro-Israel lobbying group. Michael Oren’s memoir Ally, published this past Tuesday, confirms this impression.

Attending the annual AIPAC Minnesota dinner in Minneapolis last month, however, I was struck by the strong position taken on the imminent Iran deal. AIPAC set forth five criteria for an acceptable deal that would obviously obligate the organization to oppose the deal. I wondered: would AIPAC follow through? and if not now, when?

Last week AIPAC posted its five minimum criteria for an acceptable agreement. Eli Lake reports here, adding details and context to the story.

AIPAC articulates the five criteria as follows:

1. Inspections and Verification
Inspectors must be granted unimpeded access to suspect sites for “anytime, anywhere” inspections, including all military facilities.

2. Possible Military Dimensions
Iran must completely explain its prior weaponization efforts. Otherwise, it will be impossible to establish a baseline to measure Iran’s true capabilities and future actions.

3. Sanctions
Sanctions relief must only begin after the International Atomic Energy Agency certifies that Iran has complied with its commitments under the agreement.

4. Duration
A deal must last for decades to ensure that Iran does not become a nuclear threshold state with a virtually instant breakout time after 12 or 13 years.

5. Dismantlement
Iran must dismantle its nuclear infrastructure such that it has no path to a nuclear weapon.

These five are, to repeat, minimum criteria. Taking what is said here at face value, each of the five is essential from AIPAC”s perspective.

I think that Obama is about to go 0 for 5. AIPAC is about to go into opposition.

Late last week, international media, including this news site, was flooded by optimistic claims, based on a report by the Jewish People Policy Institute report, that the Jewish population had regained losses suffered during the Nazis’ systematic genocide.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement from Sunday’s cabinet meeting got on the bandwagon with the “encouraging data” — while giving it a signature Iran-flavored spin.

“According to the Jewish People Policy Institute, the number of Jews in the world has passed 16 million and is approaching – and maybe has already passed — the number of Jews who lived before the Holocaust…

“There is still a certain symbolic value in that the Jewish People has re-attained the number that it had before the awful destruction,” said Netanyahu.

“Seventy years after the destruction of one-third of our people, we will not allow a regime that denies the Holocaust and openly declares its intention to destroy our state have the ability to do so,” he added.

‘We are approaching the number of Jews in the world on the eve of WWII’

— JPPI report summary

The JPPI report, formally released at the cabinet meeting on Sunday, was accompanied by a summary which reads: “The worldwide Jewish population has been steadily expanding and now numbers 14.2 million people. If we include those who identify as partially Jewish and immigrants to the State of Israel who are not halachically [i.e., according to Jewish law] Jewish but have qualified under the Law of Return (and do not profess any religion) we are approaching the number of Jews in the world on the eve of WWII.”

In conversation with The Times of Israel Sunday, JPPI President Avinoam Bar-Yosef said the report is not stating that there are now 16.5 million Jews, the pre-WWII figure. Rather that for “policy purposes,” there are several million more who should be considered in order “to tailor for them special policies that will enhance their Jewish identity.”

While creating “euphoric headlines,” this way of computing is patently false, said demographer DellaPergola in a lengthy conversation with The Times of Israel Sunday.

The JPPI report, it seems, is mixing proverbial population apples and oranges into its claim that “we are approaching the number of Jews in the world on the eve of WWII.” But as in many conversations surrounding Israel and the Diaspora, at the base of this controversy is the endlessly unanswerable question, “Who is a Jew?”

‘The headline does not match the news’

DellaPergola, as the world’s preeminent expert in Jewish demography, has been beleaguered by phone calls since Friday’s article.

The professor emeritus from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem had just finished updating his decades-long study on worldwide Jewish populations — which now stands at 14.3 million — when the article was published. In looking at a Ynet news article, he saw that his 2014 figure of 14.2 million was the basis for the JPPI’s extrapolations and resulting media reports.

He explained how this apparent numbers game stems from “a mixture of misunderstanding — and also journalistic counterfeit. The headline does not match the news. It is a canard.”